The Stevenson Ohana

 

August 23, 2023: After a day of lots of hiking, we decided to check out Iseltwald for a day of kayaking and lake swimming for a nice hiking break.  Iseltwald is this tiny fairy tale town on the southern shore of Lake Brienz. The water was turquoise and the weather was perfect, one of my favorite days of the whole trip and place that we would love to return. After lots of swimming and kayaking and we decided we would take a 'small stroll' to a waterfall. The stroll turned out to be a major multi-hour hike which also turned complicated into needing to be back in time for the last bus home.  Luke dug deep (i think we all did) and we picked up the pace and saw the waterfall. We even had enough time to jump in the water again before heading back to Murren. It was such a fun, fun day. Nothing beats the feeling of coming home so warn out after a day of being outside swimming and hiking. Take me back. 

August 22, 2023: We spend the majority of this day hiking! Many day dreams had been filled with thoughts of hiking in the Swiss Alps and little did we know that our day dreams were selling it all short, it was even better in real life.  It was really fun hiking as a group and was so proud of Luke for walking so many miles on his own and my parents for coming along having no time to adjust to jet lag but hitting the ground strong helping with kids and playing along. The North Face Trail was so beautiful and loved looping up and down and around through the swiss country hearing cowbells ring in the distance.  It was so great to see my parents bond so fast with the kids and was really grateful for that and for them with all the help and good entertainment and yummy snacks. We played lots of i spy and "20 questions" guessing game and 'Rocky & Wally' stories along the trail.